Intro: CNCF Serverless WG / CloudEvents

The Apache OpenWhisk project (supported by IBM, Adobe, Red Hat, and others) provides a polyglot, autoscaling environment for deploying cloud-native applications driven by data, message, and REST API call events. Daniel Krook explains why serverless architectures are great for cloud workloads and when to consider OpenWhisk in particular for your next web, mobile, IoT, bot, or analytics project.

Continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems are part and parcel of todays software delivery pipelines. Today, there are two choices for a CI/CD system: you either pay for a service or host your own. Anubhav Mishra explains how to use serverless computing to create a cost-effective and reliable CI/CD pipeline.

Cloud-native developers today have to decide between 3 separate container platforms. Some choose the flexibility of containers with Kubernetes, others the velocity of an opinionated platform like Clo …

Serverless architectures are the natural evolution of microservices design. While Lambda has become synonymous with serverless in AWS, there are several new patterns that take serverless architectures to the next level. Manish Pandit explains how to identify these patterns and put them to use, using Marqeta's efforts to move its payments infrastructure to the public cloud as an example.

The lines between static and dynamic content are blurred, and its more difficult than ever to choose the right technologies for your requirements and budget. John Chapin takes you on a step-by-step journey from hosting static content on AWS S3 to deploying dynamic, complex business logic mere milliseconds away from your users, with AWS CloudFront, Lambda@Edge, and more.

This year TensorFlow 1.4 was released. Rustem Feyzkhanov explains how he ported it to AWS Lambda and built an image recognition tool. The tool is cheaper than almost any alternatives and very scalable (a thousand functions can be run in parallel), and it integrates into cloud infrastructure.